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Waiting on WikiLeaks: What Will It Release Next?

By Sharon WeinbergerOct 4th 2010 – 4:10PM
Bertil Ericson, AFP / Getty Images

Bertil Ericson, AFP / Getty Images

(Oct. 4) -- WikiLeaks, the online transparency organization, may still be getting lots of publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Rather than releasing new documents, the organization appears enmeshed in controversy. Its chief editor, Julian Assange, has been accused of rape in Sweden; a prominent spokesman has quit...

Background on iraq war documents

The Iraq War documents leak is the unsanctioned disclosure of a collection of 391,832 United States Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs, of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 to several international media organizations and published on the Internet by WikiLeaks on 2010. The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.

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